Even though simpler “simpler” privacy settings have been announced, Facebook’s privacy disaster is not over quite yet. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a piece this week, "If people share more, the world will become more open and connected. And a world that's more open and connected is a better world." This, however, contradicts the want of some users to stay private. Also, Facebook has an indirect push towards public sharing, as it changed all your settings to default where it shared more. It was much easier to agree to these settings than to redirect yourself to another page and change it all one by one. Facebook argues that the point of the site is to find new friends or friends of friends. Twitter, a public media, has been a great help to the recovery of some disasters, and it is clear that Facebook may be going for the same effect, but Facebook is a private media, not public. This “public by default” model has benefits to Facebook as a business as you'll spend more time browsing Facebook and you'll comment more and get more out of Facebook. It is only a matter of time until Facebook’s privacy war begins again.
It seems as if Facebook has schemed and talked its way out of another debate on its privacy settings. I have a Facebook account myself, and I believe that the more privacy there is to be provided, the better it will be for the clients. It makes more sense to provide the most privacy or even decent privacy as a default, and then give the consumers an option to change it by themselves. It is not fair that Facebook should take advantage of its clients to profit. Facebook needs to stop thinking it is a public media like Twitter and create a new model that will benefit the business as well as the clients.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/05/27/facebook.privacy.war.cashmore/index.html
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